H F M Prescott: 2 books

Mary Tudor

by H.F.M. Prescott
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012

A highly-readable popular biography of 'Bloody Mary' - winner of the James Tait Black prize. Mary I is notorious for her persecution of Protestants and has been vilified by generations of partisan historians. H.F.M. Prescott brings a more humane and measured perspective to the life of this...

The Man on a Donkey

by H.F.M. Prescott
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016

'A classic of historical fiction' HILARY MANTEL. 'By widespread assent, one of the finest historical novels ever written. It may even be the finest' TLS. Sir John Uvedale had business at Coverham Abbey in Wensleydale, lately suppressed, so he sent his people on before him to Marrick,...